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LiDAR map of Porlock
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Porlock, a parish in Somerset, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 56 recorded places here: 40 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 8 listed buildings, 5 scheduled monuments, 3 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 21 m and 423 m above sea level; its highest point is about 451 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 2 henges and standing stones and 2 barrows or cairns.
Porlock on the LiDAR. Bare-earth LiDAR, drawn in your browser by the RVT toolbox (the Relief Visualization Toolbox, ZRC SAZU). It opens on Combined VAT; the panel holds all seventeen of its methods, each with its settings. LiDAR: Environment Agency, 1 m composite DTM, Open Government Licence. More about this map
The Ordnance Survey six-inch map of Porlock, 1888–1913. The Ordnance Survey’s six-inch-to-the-mile map, second edition, surveyed between 1888 and 1913 and held by the National Library of Scotland, laid over today’s map with the paper colour removed, so the field boundaries, place names and antiquities the surveyors drew sit on the ground. More about this map
Roman roads near Porlock. The Roman road network compiled by the Roman Roads Research Association (Digital Britannia), with each road’s grade of evidence, and the Roman forts, camps and towns along them. More about this map
Aerial archaeology at Porlock. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. The records hold 40 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Porlock with everything Waystone has
The full map lays the LiDAR under the Ordnance Survey's six-inch maps of 1843–1913, the Roman road network, Historic England's aerial survey (40 features in the parish) and the 56 recorded places in the parish, with search, the sun dial, the ground probe and the cross-section tool, for all of England and Wales. Free, with nothing to install.
- County
- Somerset, England
- Area
- 20.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 56
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 21–423 m above sea level; highest 451 m
- ONS code
- E04008852
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Stone circle, Porlock CommonScheduled monument
- Porlock Hill stone setting, 150m north west of the cattle grid on the A39 at the top of Porlock HillScheduled monument
- Porlock Allotment stone alignment and cairn, 450m west of Porlock stone circleScheduled monument
- The Whit Stones: two standing stones 230m west of Whitstone PostScheduled monument
- Porlock Allotment 1: a stone alignment 450m SSE of Black BarrowScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St Dubricius
- Doverhay Reading Room and Cottage Abutting North
- Cape's Stores Old Rose and Crown
- Aa Box at Junction with New Road
- Combe Garden
- Churchyard Cross
- The Ship Inn
- The Gables Hotel
Other recorded places
- Hawkcombe WoodsWikidata place
- Porlock BayWikidata place
- Porlock WeirWikidata place
- BARROW\MOUNDAerial survey feature
- ANTI INVASION DEFENCE SITE\COASTAL DEFENCE SITE\PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- ANTI INVASION DEFENCE SITE\COASTAL DEFENCE SITE\SLIT TRENCHAerial survey feature
- ANTI INVASION DEFENCE SITE\COASTAL DEFENCE SITE\PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- ANTI INVASION DEFENCE SITE\COASTAL DEFENCE SITE\PILLBOXAerial survey feature
- ANTI INVASION DEFENCE SITE\COASTAL DEFENCE SITE\PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)Aerial survey feature
- ANTI INVASION DEFENCE SITE\COASTAL DEFENCE SITE\PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)Aerial survey feature
- ANTI INVASION DEFENCE SITE\COASTAL DEFENCE SITE\PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)Aerial survey feature
- BUILDING\DESERTED SETTLEMENT\FIELD SYSTEMAerial survey feature
- BANK (EARTHWORK)\LYNCHET\STRIP LYNCHETAerial survey feature
- STONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- RING DITCH\ROUND BARROWAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Berry Castle1.7 km south
- Porlock Stone Circle2.3 km south-west
- Culbone Stone2.7 km west
Neighbouring parishes
Reading the LiDAR
The terrain model has trees, crops and buildings removed, so banks, ditches, mounds, old field systems and hollow ways show as relief. Many are modern or natural: check the records and the old Ordnance Survey map in the app. How to read a LiDAR map. Scheduled monuments are protected by law; use public rights of way.
Sources
- LiDAR: Environment Agency, 1 m composite DTM, Open Government Licence.
- Heights: Waystone, from the same LiDAR sampled about every 12 m inside the boundary; 'most of the ground' is the middle 80% of those heights; metres above Ordnance Datum Newlyn.
- Parish boundary: Office for National Statistics, Parishes and Non Civil Parished Areas (December 2024), Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025.
- Recorded places: the national heritage records (Historic England, Cadw, Coflein and others) as held by Waystone.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Last updated 2026-10-16.